Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 , at a particularly lively , contentious and near-violent writers ' conference in Budapest , Angela and I listened one quiet afternoon to the omnipresent Susan Sontag as she revealed that she had devoured ( her cliche ) the great classics of English literature soon after discarding her diapers . |
| 2 | DIARY TODAY Meeting of European Agriculture Council , Luxembourg and European Farmers ' Day … |
| 3 | And the man whose glory days at Goodison included League championship , FA Cup and European Cup-Winners ' Cup medals insisted : ‘ This situation is even bigger than my experience at Everton . |
| 4 | The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 . |
| 5 | But it had no relevance , and its guardians remained mute ten years ago , when bombs , with the United States ' and allied governments ' blessing , fell like rain on women and children in Cambodia ( Shawcross 1979 ) , or when the same governments aid and support other political/military regimes exercising mass terror and partial genocide against a subjugated people ( Chomsky and Herman 1979a , 1979b ) . |
| 6 | The Bakers , Food and Allied Workers ' Union had threatened a series of one-day strikes . |
| 7 | Later that month , railway workers belonging to the Swaziland Transport and Allied Workers ' Union struck for two days over union recognition . |
| 8 | The Civil and Public Servants ' Association opposes the move , which it said will mean pay cuts of up to £2,000 a year . |
| 9 | The recession has taken its toll of lorries , dump trucks and commercial reps ' company cars . |
| 10 | The maypole committee , of which Amos was president , had been looking for ways of raising funds for the May weekend and old folks ' treat ( of which more later ) , the most important weekend in the lives of the villagers . |
| 11 | Where it studies young and old subjects , it commonly implies their inferior status by investigating young subjects ' development towards adult thinking and feeling , and old subjects ' loss of these faculties . |
| 12 | Political polls hold key to further economic integration The shape of the EMU depends on the French elections , Danish referendum and British MPs ' vote on Maastricht . |
| 13 | Above left : ‘ Cecil ’ Leitch , the British , French , Canadian and English Ladies ' Champion and President of Henley Ladies 1920–25 . |
| 14 | July : London summit and Foreign Ministers ' meeting [ see pp. 37599-600 ] . |
| 15 | December Defence and Foreign Ministers ' meeting [ see p. 37931 ] . |
| 16 | However , he will stress that economic success can only be achieved through a commitment to free market principles and Scottish businesses ' pursuit of efficiency , diversity , enterprise , international markets and quality . |
| 17 | It is 0300 hours in Munster , and the Workshop Duty Officer 's phone rings at 6 Armoured Workshop Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers ' base in West Germany . |
| 18 | The latter also publishes an excellent and comprehensive Squatters ' Handbook . |
| 19 | You should develop your own reliable method of recording the names of people and places ; college buildings and their quaint room-numbering systems ; opening and closing hours of libraries , college and faculty offices ; student-welfare and advisory-staff offices ' telephone numbers . |
| 20 | Er we 're going to continue our focus sponsorship on and corporate hospitality er we 're going to set up er a chairman and chief executives ' club which we er , we have now done being and that it 's the chief executives ' club , it 's their club , we facilitated , have er four or so er lunches er a year and a launch lunch for example we have as a keynote speaker . |
| 21 | While in the United States in the 1890s he had been heavily influenced by the Populist and Democratic Parties ' assault on the Gold Standard . |
| 22 | With the ending of the BBC television 's long-running sailing soap opera , ‘ Howards ' Way ’ ( sighs of relief all round : the last few have been hardly a glowing advertisement for boating or boating business ) comes the announcement that Sadler International are to sell off the moulds and rights to build Barracuda , the prototype of which has been the opening and closing credits ' star of the series . |
| 23 | The use of inappropriate forms of assessment to grade and rank-order pupils ' work for the purpose of making comparisons or to achieve so-called ‘ unified standards ’ is illustrated by the worst abuses of norm-referencing , which has been roundly and justifiably criticized by many writers , even in those areas of the curriculum where one might expect this system to be welcomed . |
| 24 | He is a member of the General and Municipal Boilermakers ' Union . |
| 25 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 26 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 27 | 11–2–1903 The Moderator intimated that owing to the state of his health he was no longer able to perform all his duties and resolved to ask the General Assembly for a grant from the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund to aid in securing the services of an unordained assistant . |
| 28 | He has also rationalized the range of wine and spirits stocks to reduce the stockturn ratio , introduced purchasing specifications , tightened up on the ordering system , established a fixed asset register and got the Accommodation Manager to prepare a five-year rolling plan for plant and equipment maintenance , as well as tightening up on staff overtime and casual workers ' pay . |
| 29 | Such a shift needs to take place in two contexts — one , as we have said , is professional discourse ; the other is the strategies adopted by those responsible for promoting and encouraging teachers ' development . |
| 30 | SARAH GOURLEY , of Prestwick , the Scottish indoor and outdoor singles ' champion , took her first step to securing a world championship double for her country in Guernsey last night . |